Current News

Current News.

-Dennis Kearney has got a writ of habeas corpus issued, returnable May 11, in the supreme court.

Ill health Thomas A. Scott to resign the presidency of the Pennsylvania railroad. 

-Daniel McFarland of the McFarland-Richardson tragedy, is a penniless patient in a Leadville hospital.

- The young woman who permits herself to be discharged from a cannon in Barnum's circus gets $250 per day.

 -The cabinet has decided to send Gen. McKenzie and his forces to the Indian reservation to prevent collisions with the whites.

-Postmaster James of New York City has been ordered to pay into court $33,000 damages for using a patent canceling stamp without authority.

- Boston boasts of a man who can write a letter in French with his left hand and a business letter in English with his right hand at the same time.

 - Young Kalloch, who killed De Young, is an ordained baptist minister and several years ago published the "Kansas Evangelist" in Leavenworth.

 -Miss Ella Angleton committed suicide at Shelbyville, Ind., the other day because the young man she loved was paying attention to another young lady

-In the little city of Nashua, where the Howe sewing machine was invented, the woman still lives who used to wash Howe's shirt because he was too poor to have a third.

 - Frederick Crill of Sussex couty, New jersey, killed his daughter because she insisted that the bushel basket should be left in the shed, whereas he wanted it kept upstairs.

- Fred Douglas's wife is a full-blooded, illiterate negress, to whom he was engaged while a slave, and after his escape a sentiment of honor led him do make her his wife. He is greatly attached to her.

 -An Oshkosh woman who had a quarrel with a dressmaker, and to spite her circulated hand-bills derogatory to her character and advising people not to give her employment, has been asessed $2,000 by a jury. 

-Senator Blaine says that, though he studied law for two years in the office of the most eminent practitioners, in the United States he has never been in court as an attorney, plaintiff, defendant, witness, or juror.

 - Some speculators recently offered lie sultan $250,000 for the privilege of establishing a lottery in the Ottoman empire, and he indignantly refused because lotteries were immoral. They then offered $1,000,000, and got what they asked for. 

-Samuel Edgar Willard, aged 15 son of a professor in the Chicago high school, was reproved by his mother for going to a theater. He thereupon went away from his home, declaring that he would never return: but he did come back, after several days, and committed suicide with a pistol. 

-James Smith hugged and kissed a girl against her will in a Galveston street, and she had him arrested. He was fined $15, which he paid, and went home congratulating himself that he had got out of the scrape easily. But he was mistaken. His wife met him at the door with a rolling pin, knocked him down, and pounded him until he was insensible.

 - Sidney A. Shores, who married his step-daughter, aged 11, at Somerset, Md., has been fined $500 for violating a State law forbidding such wedlock. The marriage is also invalidated.. The Rev. Zaccheus Bowen, who performed the ceremony, is very old, and, as he pleaded that he did not know the youthfulness of the girl, the public prosecutor let him go unpunished.